E-Mail on the Internet

E-Mail - About.com
Heinz Tschabitscher keeps watch over email software, free email services, spamming, reminder services, new email directories, and other utilities.
(http://email.about.com)

Writing Effective E-Mail: Top 10 Tips (Dec 2000, Revised Aug 2004). These tips for writing are essential rules of practice when writing for business or school and many are points of courtesy that friends would appreciate too. (Dennis Jerz at Seton Hill University)
(http://jerz.setonhill.edu/writing/e-text/e-mail.htm)

Beginner's Guide to EMail by Kaitlin Duck Sherwood (Revised May 2001) WSG Pick
Classic guide to using email with pointers on format, language, gestures, greetings. Sherwood has also written about Finding EMail Addresses .

Yahoo! EMail
This is a mini-directory to services and software related to email. Netiquette section lists guides and FAQs, and Spam has some guidance on how to reduce unsolicited mail. Providers will lead to Free eMail where web-based email services are listed.

Free Email Address Directory
(www.emailaddresses.com)
This site has information about free web-based e-mail, free and for-fee e-mail services, mail forwarding services, fax to e-mail, change of address, and some e-mail finders.

Application Tips > Email
(http://www.pcworld.com/resource/browse/
0,cat,1656,sortIdx,1,pg,1,00.asp) Added March 2006
Various articles in PCWorld that were about using email software, dealing with spam, spotting hoaxes.

Netiquette for E-Mail

Netiquette by Virginia Shea, the "Miss Manners" of the Internet. (1994 - 2004) Covers all online netiquette - e-mail, chat, discussion groups. Learn the core rules and test your knowledge with the quiz. The Netiquette book is online - very readable and highly informative. WSG Pick
(http://www.albion.com/netiquette/index.html)

How Not to Stick Your Foot in Your Mouth via E-Mail
by Reid Goldsborough, LinkUp Digital (Nov 2005). Communicate more clearly through e-mail using these tips. Added March 2006
(http://www.infotoday.com/linkup/lud110105-goldsborough.shtml)

Manners Matter in Wired, Issue 5.11, November 1997. Miss Manners (Judith Marin) explains why etiquette is important on the Net and gives some particular comment about spamming, flamming, using salutations and closing, copying other people's messages. "You have to learn it [etiquette]".
(http://www.wired.com/wired/5.11/manners.html)

Fight Spam and Phishing

Block Spam for Free in the Mail App of Your Choice - " Use top-notch, no-cost tools to combat garbage e-mail in Outlook/Outlook Express,Thunderbird/Mozilla Mail & Newsgroups, Eudora, and Opera." by Scott Spanbauer, PC World (June 2005) Added March 2006
(http://www.pcworld.com/howto/article/0,aid,120352,00.asp)

Getting Rid of "Spam" ...and Other E-mail Pests by Randy Cassingham (July 2003). One page article on how spam happens and what to do about it. Updated periodically.

Help prevent identity theft from phishing scams by Microsoft (Feb 10, 2005) -- Describes phishing, how to recognize fraudulent email, and what to do. Added March 2006
(http://www.microsoft.com/athome/security/email/phishing.mspx)

Acronyms

Unofficial Smiley Dictionary -- a classic from 1994.
(http://paul.merton.ox.ac.uk/ascii/smileys.html)

Internet Acronym Server -- You can search for an acronym, search for a word in the definition of an acronym, and submit new ones with definitions.
(http://silmaril.ie/cgi-bin/uncgi/acronyms)

LOL :) -- A Guide to Internet Lingo and Emoticons by James Martin in PCWorld (March 29, 2002) -- get everyday acronyms and emoticons and lots of other shorthand slang.
(http://www.pcworld.com/resource/article/0,aid,88686,00.asp)

Where to next?

Review the main points with this quiz.